Patents by Inventor Andreas Meliniotis
Andreas Meliniotis has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20230405245Abstract: A dry powder inhaler (10) having a chamber (26) divided into first and second blister compartments (28, 30) for storing unused and used portions (34, 36) of a blister strip (12) is provided. A moveable dividing wall (32) separates the first and second blister compartments. One or more arcuate supporting surfaces (38, 40, 42) are disposed in either the first and/or the second blister compartments and these surfaces support the used or unused blister strip during successive actuations of the inhaler. Use of the arcuate supporting surfaces facilities compact coils of unused and used portions of blister strip, thereby reducing the size of the chamber required for the inhaler.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2023Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: VECTURA DELIVERY DEVICES LIMITEDInventors: Andreas Meliniotis, Liam McGuinness
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Publication number: 20230321371Abstract: A dry powder inhaler which contains a blister pack, such as a blister strip, is provided. The blister pack has a plurality of blisters, and a blister, or group of blisters, provides a dose of powdered medicament for inhalation. The blister pack has non-numerical indicia which encode an individual, unique number that is associated with each dose. The inhaler is adapted for mounting a monitor. The monitor comprises one or more sensors, such as optical sensors, for reading the non-numerical indicia on the blister pack.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2020Publication date: October 12, 2023Applicant: VECTURA DELIVERY DEVICES LIMITEDInventors: Darryl COTTON, John DEAMER, Roger CLARKE, Andreas MELINIOTIS, Philip SMITH, Philip SWANBURY, Seth THOMAS
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Publication number: 20230293831Abstract: The invention provides a unit dose dispenser in the form of a blister containing a dry powder for inhalation. The blister comprises a base material in which a cavity is formed comprising a bowl that contains the powder and a channel that opens into the bowl. The channel contains a tube that has separate sections that provide an air outlet and an air inlet. The air outlet is further from the bowl than the air inlet. The upper side of the tube is flat and level with the top of the channel A lid material, such as a foil or foil laminate, seals the cavity. The blister has a detachable portion which, when removed, exposes the air inlet and the air outlet. A process for making the unit dose dispensers is also provided, which is based on the conventional process for manufacturing blister strips for dry powder inhalers.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2021Publication date: September 21, 2023Applicant: VECTURA DELIVERY DEVICES LIMITEDInventor: Andreas MELINIOTIS
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Publication number: 20230118029Abstract: A process for producing a blister strip is provided. The blister strip contains two or more different formulations of powdered medicament for inhalation. The blister strip has a base in which blister cavities are formed. A first set of cavities each contain a first medicament formulation and are covered by a first lid material. A second set of cavities each contain a second medicament formulation and are covered by a second, separate lid material.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2021Publication date: April 20, 2023Applicant: VECTURA DELIVERY DEVICES LIMITEDInventors: Roger CLARKE, Darryl COTTON, Andreas MELINIOTIS
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Publication number: 20220395651Abstract: A dry powder inhaler is provided. The inhaler is adapted for detachably mounting a compliance monitor having a pressure sensor. The inhaler has a housing comprising first and second shell parts, and a mouthpiece which defines an inhalation passage. An external surface of the housing has an orifice. A conduit from the orifice to the inhalation passage is formed by a channel in one of the shell parts and a corresponding channel cover in the other shell part. When the compliance monitor is mounted on the housing, the pressure sensor is adjacent to the orifice and is in fluid communication with the inhalation passage via the conduit.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2020Publication date: December 15, 2022Applicant: VECTURA DELIVERY DEVICES LIMITEDInventors: Roger CLARKE, Andreas MELINIOTIS, John DEAMER, Darryl COTTON
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Publication number: 20220395652Abstract: A dry powder inhaler and an adherence and/or compliance monitor for use with the inhaler are provided. The inhaler has a cover which is pivotable relative to its housing in order to expose a mouthpiece. The monitor has one or more sensors. The inhaler and the monitor have formations for mounting the monitor onto the inhaler. The inhaler and monitor are designed so that when the monitor is mounted onto the housing of the inhaler and the cover is opened, the cover at least partially covers and protects the monitor.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2020Publication date: December 15, 2022Applicant: VECTURA DELIVERY DEVICES LIMITEDInventors: Andreas MELINIOTIS, Roger CLARKE, Darryl COTTON, John DEAMER, Philip SMITH, Philip SWANBURY, Seth THOMAS
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Publication number: 20220040420Abstract: The present invention provides an inhaler comprising a housing which contains a blister strip having a plurality of blisters which contain powdered medicament for inhalation; a mouthpiece through which the medicament is inhaled by a user; an indexing wheel for indexing the blister strip; an opening mechanism for opening the blisters; an actuator which is movable between a first position and a second position in order to operate the indexing wheel and the opening mechanism; and a coupling mechanism for coupling the actuator to the indexing wheel so that the indexing wheel rotates together with the actuator during part of the motion of the actuator; characterized in that the coupling mechanism comprises a shuttle that rotates on the same axis as, and translates axially relative to, the indexing wheel.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2019Publication date: February 10, 2022Applicant: VECTURA DELIVERY DEVICES LIMITEDInventors: Andreas MELINIOTIS, Roger CLARKE
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Publication number: 20210369989Abstract: An inhaler is provided, comprising a housing which contains a blister strip having a plurality of blisters which contain powdered medicament for inhalation; a mouthpiece mounted on the housing through which the medicament is inhaled by a user; an actuator; a blister piercing member; an indexing wheel for sequentially moving each blister into alignment with the blister piercing member when the user operates the actuator; an actuator gear, mounted for rotation about a first axis, which is driven by the actuator and which comprises an actuator gear element; and a drive gear for driving the indexing wheel, mounted for rotation about a second axis, which engages with the actuator gear element. The inhaler is characterized in that the gear ratio between the actuator gear element and the drive gear varies as they rotate during operation of the actuator.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2018Publication date: December 2, 2021Applicant: VECTURA DELIVERY DEVICES LIMITEDInventors: Roger CLARKE, Andreas MELINIOTIS
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Publication number: 20210268214Abstract: The present invention provides an inhaler comprising a housing which contains a blister strip having a plurality of blisters which contain powdered medicament for inhalation, a mouthpiece mounted to the housing through which the medicament is inhaled by a user, an indexing and opening mechanism for indexing the blister strip and for opening the blisters which is operated by an actuator, wherein the blister strip is indexed by forward motion of the actuator from a first position to a second position, such as by opening a cover, and is also indexed in the same direction by reverse motion of the actuator from the second position to the first position, such as by closing the cover.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2019Publication date: September 2, 2021Applicant: VECTURA DELIVERY DEVICES LIMITEDInventors: Roger CLARKE, Andreas MELINIOTIS
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Publication number: 20210162147Abstract: A dry powder inhaler (10) having a chamber (26) divided into first and second blister compartments (28, 30) for storing unused and used portions (34, 36) of a blister strip (12) is provided. A moveable dividing wall (32) separates the first and second blister compartments. One or more arcuate supporting surfaces (38, 40, 42) are disposed in either the first and/or the second blister compartments and these surfaces support the used or unused blister strip during successive actuations of the inhaler. Use of the arcuate supporting surfaces facilities compact coils of unused and used portions of blister strip, thereby reducing the size of the chamber required for the inhaler.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2021Publication date: June 3, 2021Applicant: VECTURA DELIVERY DEVICES LIMITEDInventors: Andreas Meliniotis, Liam McGuinness
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Patent number: 10953165Abstract: A dry powder inhaler (10) having a chamber (26) divided into first and second blister compartments (28, 30) for storing unused and used portions (34, 36) of a blister strip (12) is provided. A moveable dividing wall (32) separates the first and second blister compartments. One or more arcuate supporting surfaces (38, 40, 42) are disposed in either the first and/or the second blister compartments and these surfaces support the used or unused blister strip during successive actuations of the inhaler. Use of the arcuate supporting surfaces facilities compact coils of unused and used portions of blister strip, thereby reducing the size of the chamber required for the inhaler.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2016Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: VECTURA DELIVERY DEVICES LIMITEDInventors: Andreas Meliniotis, Liam McGuinness
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Patent number: 10188810Abstract: An inhaler comprising a housing defining a chamber to receive a strip having a plurality of blisters each containing a dose of medicament for inhalation by a user is disclosed. It comprises an actuating lever and a blister strip drive member rotatably mounted in the chamber to sequentially move each blister into a blister opening position. The blister strip drive member and the actuating lever comprise a drive gear and a drive gear element, respectively, that cooperate to effect rotation of the blister strip drive member in response to rotation of the actuating lever. The drive gear and drive gear element are disposed on the outside of the housing remote from the chamber.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2015Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: VECTURA DELIVERY DEVICES LIMITEDInventors: Andreas Meliniotis, Stephen Eason, Roger Clarke, Liam McGuinness
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Patent number: 10183133Abstract: An inhaler comprising a housing defining a chamber to receive a strip having a plurality of blisters each containing a dose of medicament for inhalation by a user is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2013Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignee: VECTURA DELIVERY DEVICES LIMITEDInventors: Andreas Meliniotis, Andrew Solly, Roger Clarke, Liam McGuinness
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Publication number: 20180214647Abstract: A dry powder inhaler (10) having a chamber (26) divided into first and second blister compartments (28, 30) for storing unused and used portions (34, 36) of a blister strip (12) is provided. A moveable dividing wall (32) separates the first and second blister compartments. One or more arcuate supporting surfaces (38, 40, 42) are disposed in either the first and/or the second blister compartments and these surfaces support the used or unused blister strip during successive actuations of the inhaler. Use of the arcuate supporting surfaces facilities compact coils of unused and used portions of blister strip, thereby reducing the size of the chamber required for the inhaler.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2016Publication date: August 2, 2018Applicant: VECTURA DELIVERY DEVICES LIMITEDInventors: Andreas Meliniotis, Liam McGuinness
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Patent number: 10034989Abstract: A blister piercing element for puncturing the lid of a blister containing a dose of medicament for inhalation by a user is disclosed. It comprises a body having a surface and an opening in the surface for the passage of air, or for the passage of medicament entrained in air, through the body. The body includes a pair of spaced cutting teeth upstanding from the surface in spaced side-by-side relation, each cutting tooth projecting in cantilevered form over said opening and each having a distal cutting edge at a free end remote from said surface. The distal cutting edge of each tooth is configured to initiate a slit in a blister lid when pressure is applied to a blister lid by the teeth and the teeth are spaced from each other so that separate slits cut by the distal cutting edge of each tooth propagate in a direction toward each other between the teeth as the teeth continue to penetrate a blister lid.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2014Date of Patent: July 31, 2018Assignee: VECTURA DELIVERY DEVICES LIMITEDInventors: Peter Wilson, Andreas Meliniotis
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Publication number: 20150335833Abstract: A blister piercing element for puncturing the lid of a blister containing a dose of medicament for inhalation by a user is disclosed. It comprises a body having a surface and an opening in the surface for the passage of air, or for the passage of medicament entrained in air, through the body. The body includes a pair of spaced cutting teeth upstanding from the surface in spaced side-by-side relation, each cutting tooth projecting in cantilevered form over said opening and each having a distal cutting edge at a free end remote from said surface. The distal cutting edge of each tooth is configured to initiate a slit in a blister lid when pressure is applied to a blister lid by the teeth and the teeth are spaced from each other so that separate slits cut by the distal cutting edge of each tooth propagate in a direction toward each other between the teeth as the teeth continue to penetrate a blister lid.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2014Publication date: November 26, 2015Inventors: Peter WILSON, Andreas MELINIOTIS
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Publication number: 20150151059Abstract: An inhaler comprising a housing defining a chamber to receive a strip having a plurality of blisters each containing a dose of medicament for inhalation by a user is disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2013Publication date: June 4, 2015Inventors: Andreas Meliniotis, Andrew Solly, Roger Clarke, Liam McGuinness
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Patent number: D947360Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2020Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: Vectura Delivery Devices LimitedInventors: Darryl Cotton, Roger Clarke, John Deamer, Andreas Meliniotis
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Patent number: D948705Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2020Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: Vectura Delivery Devices LimitedInventors: Darryl Cotton, Roger Clarke, John Deamer, Andreas Meliniotis
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Patent number: D960350Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2020Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: Vectura Delivery Devices LimitedInventors: Darryl Cotton, Roger Clarke, John Deamer, Andreas Meliniotis